This took place at the “third party candidate” debate. I sort of feel sorry for her but somehow this performance sums our country post Trump.
Sorry for the multiple edits. I was trying to find a posts le version.
Seems to me that there’s a “worst rendition of the national anthem” thread every few months. Maybe you (Americans) shouldn’t have someone sing it if before anyone letting out a public fart, and the chances for botched performances would diminish.
But then how else would anyone know how much we love America???
Why do foreigners hate freedom so much? Gosh.
Grossanne Barrf, as she was dubbed by MAD Magazine even before this, destroyed her career back in 1990 by doing this.
My enunciation would be clearer, and hopefully I would know I was live so I wouldn’t stop in the middle and drop the F-bomb. But on the whole, she sings our hideous national anthem so much better than I could.
I’m almost tempted to record myself singing The Star Spangled Banner with great gusto, just so I can appreciate how ear-destroyingly bad it would sound.
Dennis KC Parks nods in approval…
Agreed. Let’s stop with the displays of fake patriotism before sporting events.
Well, we did steal the melody from the Brits, as it was originally a drinking song of sorts (“To Anacreon in Heaven”). So you can’t blame us for the nearly unsingable tune. And imagine how much worse it would sound with a pub full of drunks trying to hit the high notes…
It’s a pretty difficult tune to sing to.
We don’t really do that patriotism-stuff here and I cant remember the last time I heard the National Anthem strike up at some social/sporting function.
Let me tell you about Sarah Connor singing the German Anthem 2005 in the Allianz Arena in Munich:
Or the Hoss Boss 2023! (Sorry, cannot embed YouTube, you have to click. Or perhaps better not.)
They do the same shite everywhere!
It’s worse in the USA, of course! 
But still… others try to do it too, with predictable results.
Oh please don’t remind me of these debacles. Every time they (the DFB) tried to pull off the “semi-popular musical act singing the German anthem like Americans use to do”, it failed absolutely spectacularly. They should have learned by now, nobody wants it, everybody hates it, it’s the worst kind of “Fremdschämen” (shame by proxy) imaginable.
ETA: I’m reminded how the DFB also tried to establish a half time show, Super Bowl like, in the DFB cup final a few years ago, when Helene Fischer sang one (some?) of her inane schlager ditties to the whole stadium booing and whistling. THIS I liked. 
And I did not even mention Helene Fischer! 
Sorry, you started it. I’ll get myself out.
Well, I hope for the both of us (and the whole nation) that Helene Fischer will never sing the German anthem publicly.
At Yankee Stadium you get the National Anthem before the game and God Fucking Bless America during the seventh inning stretch, all because Steinbrenner was yet another phony magatrash ‘patriot.’
One of the great benefits of being someone that has no interest in professional sports is I don’t have to listen to the gawd awful national anthems. Even a ‘good’ performance of shitty music is crap.
I posted elsewhere that all God wants to hear during the stretch is “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”. I refuse to stand for it, so it doubly pisses me off because I can’t get up to take a piss then, or get a last chance beer.
I think that’s pretty common since 9/11. They do it in Philly, anyway, followed by Take Me Out….enough already.
In my opinion, not only her funniest moment, but one of the funniest moments ever captured on media. Yeah, I’m easily amused.
And for those who haven’t heard it, enjoy the national anthem (all verses!) sung by crooner extraordiaire Isaac Asimov. Unfortunately, this cuts off his analysis of the verses, which he typically did after singing this little ditty.